BRIG. ANTONY HEAD'S STUDY OF COMMUNISM AND POSSIBLE VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES

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• Document Release Date: October 11, 2005
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• Publication Date: June 15, 1959
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Matter of Fact
0 0 By Joseph Alsop
On the Importance of Being Earnest
LONDON - Imagine the
American foreign' service be-
Ing so,organized that every
key officer in every legation
and consulate
iii all the
Arab lands,
for instance,
could speak
f a i r Arabic.
(In ' ,practice,
almost non e
of them, ei-
ther, in the
Arab: lands or
in an
other
y
tries by Britain's former Min: The foregoing facts are bor-
ister of Defense, Brig. An- 'rowed from Head, simply be-
tony Head. cause they are the best avail-
IT IS tempting to devote able proof of the importance
of being reasonably earnest
a good many thousand words about the vast struggle for
to the material that Brig, the world. As this reporter
Head has T now accumulated. packs for the return journey
One known training school to Washington, the thing that
for African Communists, for sticks in his craw like a poi-
in n Czechoslovakia provides facilities soned chicken bone is the
choslovakia for 3000 danger of our own lack of
men and women drawn from earnestness.
all over Africa. Another
training school for Southeast `IKITA Khrushchev may
Asian Communists, situated smile and smile, between ges-
rovinc
in China
ir, Hunan
p
e
country, for that matter can has the incredible but well Eures wiin nis ri-Domos. An-
rise much higher than order- authenticated total of 30,000 drei Gromyko may force him-
ing a meal in a restaurant.) students drawn from Indo- self to be relatively, polite.
Imagine the United States nesia, Cambodia, Thailand, But all the while, these men
mobilizing for the struggle Malaya, Burma, Laos, and of the Kremlin and their
for the, world to the point Viet-Nam. Communist collaborators in
where we could provide huge, Again, the program. is s are in deadly
camp-universi- worked out in such elaborate other countrie y
ties to give special training detail' that pro-Communist earnest, endlessly searching
for our potential friends in versions of the most obscure for weak points in the armor
of the West, endlessly organ-
the uncommitt d countries. 'tribal myths are being ped-
(In practice, the American .died in Africa in the original izing to exploit the. Wests
fellowship programs for over- tribal dialects. Yet the broad weaknesses whenever an d
seas students and leadine for- principleq have 'been es-ta- Wherever these appear. Khru
h h A h
s c
k
d t
only small in scale; they are clarity that penetrable coun-
also constantly menaced with tries are divided into three
further cuts by both Con- classes: Class I, where cooper-
gress and the Bureau of the ation "with the bourgeois" is
Budget) desirable, as in Egypt until
Imagine a foreign aid pro- recently; Class II, where
gram so tough-minded yet so more open support for the
flexible that its methods Communists is permissible;
would be tailored to each as in Iraq at present; and
special situation, serving our Class III, where all support
interests. in all cases without is concentrated behind the
regard to political prejudice, local Communists, as in Viet-
paper work rules, or doEgood Nam before the truce there.
poppycock. (In this case, the But the temptation to tell
contrast between imagination Brig. Head's remarkable story
and practice is really too in still greater detail must be
painful to dwell on.) resisted. There are reasons to
For us in the United States, hope that this exceptionally
such things really seem un- intelligent and original-
imaginable. But they are minded E n g l i s h :m a n will
cap
being
be thing his ow
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unilag?le?on the Cvl._tory in tip United States, as beaten at Berlin and if the
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the struggle handed, the job of telling it in "
I a 111m. `- - i uneInS at.
ev an romy
o-an
e
rest of them are not bored
with the Geneva conference,
for example, and. they are not
complacent about the out-
come, either. They are just
as intensely interested, they
are just as lacking in com:
placency, as hungry, hover-
ing. hawks.
Of course, Secretary of
State Christian A. Herter and
his staff are not bored, either.
On the contrary, their vigi-
lance and stoutness at Geneva
have", been altogether admi=
rable.:But judging by the re-
ports from home, the mood
in Washington is flatulently
complacent; and so it seems
to be in most 6f the western
itals. Yet if the West is
.~a
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